søndag 5. juni 2016

This song by Kansas called "Dust in the Wind" (1977) inspired me to write this post:

"I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone

All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea

All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind"

There's this subject that I never seem to get out of my mind, and that is the passing of time.

The fact that moments, seconds, minutes pass by so quickly, it's like it's gone already before I get

the chance to grasp it. And sometimes I find myself unable to recall what I've done the last few

days or weeks, which makes me start to question if that might reflect my inability to process all

the events, conversations, thoughts, writings that I encounter. I believe part of it can be the

state of not being present in the moment which I think is better described as a "sleepwalker".

- Unaware that your consciousness is somewhere else, it's like your mind is set to autopilot.

Perhaps your mind has taken trivial, everyday events for granted and lost the curiousity for life

and just got lost somewhere in between.

Technology, different forms of light entertainment such as social media, internet, television is a time killer too I believe. Perhaps that's the answer to when we all say: "Where did all that time go?"

When we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping, we shouldn't "sleep away" another half of our lives?

Distractions are everywhere, I tend to pull myself together and distance myself, and "disconnect"

from the internet world and impulses. In few words; focus, space, disposing time in a conscious matter.

It's a combination of how we process and treasure our memories, and also a way of thinking,

a mentality that always thinks forward, ahead of time, which in fact just serves as an

illusion that distracts us from what is in front of us this very moment. Your reality is

now. Not next friday, or when summer finally arrives. If we have this kind of mentality

of always looking forward to the future, "future" has lost its value, for when the "future"

arrives, we won't even realize, cause we are already looking forward to next weekend,